digital...b&w or colour?

[back alley]

does anyone shoot digital jpeg b&w only...all the time?

i assume that most folks shoot raw plus jpeg...colour and then decide how they want to handle the processing later on.
but i'm wondering if anyone shoots only b&w...especially with acros now available in the fuji cameras.

 

[bayernfan]

i shoot my GXR in Raw+jpg. The jpgs are a dialed in monochrome setting. Typically the jpgs are flexible enough, the raw file is my safety net.

 

[Godfrey]

My cameras, since about 10-12 years ago, are always set to raw output only. I might have the JPEG parameters set to B&W but usually not ... The only real point to that (for me) is an attempt to previsualize what the B&W will look like, but I haven’t seen a camera that I can do the kinds of B&W filtering I did with film, or with my digital files. I previsualize my B&W and do all the filtering and other processing required to produce the monochrome rendering on the raw data in the image rendering work later.

I never had a B&W viewfinder when I was shooting film, why should I need one now? 😀

 

[Dogman]

I shoot Raw+JPEG with the JPEG set to monochrome. But I only use the JPEG as a temporary guide for printing the Raw file in B&W. After printing, I delete the JPEG.

Why? I dunno. I've always worked with Raw files. When I first bought a Fuji camera, I shot JPEG only for a short while but eventually returned to shooting Raw. I guess I'm just more comfortable working this way. Plus, when it comes to color, I'm one of the few who doesn't really like Fuji's colors and I can tweak those colors to my taste using Raw files in LR.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I like to switch my M-E to BW Jpeg1 once it is ISO1600 time of the year. Then it is back to ISO100 season I go back to colors.

 

[Dogman]

I shoot Raw+JPEG with the JPEG set to monochrome. But I only use the JPEG as a temporary guide for printing the Raw file in B&W. After printing, I delete the JPEG.

Why? I dunno. I've always worked with Raw files. When I first bought a Fuji camera, I shot JPEG only for a short while but eventually returned to shooting Raw. I guess I'm just more comfortable working this way. Plus, when it comes to color, I'm one of the few who doesn't really like Fuji's colors and I can tweak those colors to my taste using Raw files in LR.

That was me in 2017. Like most things, methods change over time. For the last year or so, I've shot everything JPEG and 99% is B&W.

For my purposes, which is posting online and printing no larger than 13x19, JPEGs are better than good enough. I'm into Simple these days. I still tweak the files in Lightroom because I like the control it gives me, however, I don't have have to deal with Raw converters, etc. And, frankly, I'm no longer interested in detail, resolution and all the other things that give many photographers erections. Making a photograph, to me anyway, is not about the technology it's about the seeing.

 

[Rob-F]

Having acquired an M9M, I'm happily clicking away in B&W, DNG + JPEG, while my M9 sits idle (for now). The DNG files go to my Macbook Pro, which accepts them; the JPEGs are for my aging iMac, which can't handle the Monochrom RAW files.

With my D700, the JPEGs are really very good. Not so good from the M9; I'm better off with RAW. It's a different story with the M9M: its JPEGS are pretty good!